The Slave's Cause Summary

Professor of History at the University of California, Davis Andres Resendez, constructs a detailed portrait of Native American enslavement in The Other Slavery. Part historical synthesis, part original research the monograph argues that decimated Native North American populations were a result of mass slavery. This is not a running history of native enslavement in the Western Hemisphere, that would require numerous volumes; this is a breadth approach outlining a missing piece of North American history, adding to the limited number of works on Native American slavery. He is attempting to demonstrate that Native Americans made up a significant portion of slaves, but beyond the numerical value of enslavement, it irrevocably altered the course of Native history.

Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863.

The title of this book is Rebels Against Slavery, and the authors are Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack. It was published by the Scholastic Press in 1996. It also has 182 pages, this includes the epilogue, the important dates, the bibliography, and the index. This is a book of significant dimension and importance.

America’s history will be scarred forever by the evils of slavery which once existed here. Slaves lived lives of pain and hardship. But some, like the slave and later abolitionist Frederick Douglass, rose up from the tribulations of slavery and led the way for progress and change in America. In his autobiography “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, Douglass tells his inspiring yet harrowing story of his life as a slave in Maryland and his escape to freedom in New York and later Massachusetts, where he eventually became an abolitionist. Douglass masterfully uses ethos, pathos, and logos to craft his powerful narrative that exposes to his audience, the American people, the horrors, absurdity, and hypocrisy of slavery.

First african slave ship came in Virginia , the slaves were brought here to work in fields or lucrative crops like tobacco , cotton , and etc. The first ship with the slaves was a dutch ship who popped up on the shore of Jamestown , Virginia. It were only 20 African slaves on the ship and this was the 17th century. In the 18th century about 7 million slaves spreaded throughout America mostly in the south.

The PBS Documentary Slavery by Another Name goes into detail describing one of America’s most disgraceful periods of time. In the video you can see photos and testimonies of people who once lived through the hardship of being an African American at that point in history. Families member tell the stories of their relatives. By doing so maybe it will impact the future generations.

In this chapter, we learned about slavery. After the war of 1812, Isaac Hopper, Robert Vaux, and Benjamin Lundy was in a religious group’s that pressing for legal abolition nationwide using the strategy of moral suasion (page 21). They try to shame the slave owner to manumitting the slave, and convince the northern people to abolition with the god for America. They wanted to pass gradual emancipation laws in the south. In addition, they wanted to be educated in preparation before freedom be emancipated (page 21). The big consider was how to accomplished gradualism. One option was, they could pass state laws at a later date, for example, foreign slave trade clause in the united constitution. The second option, slave children who were born after a certain

Although Brown spent most of his life far from the notorious deep south, the horrific conditions and legal abuse that slaves endured were not lost on him. Beaten, abused, separated from his family, and forced to do things he would never choose to do, Brown went on to become a free man, an author, historian, and an abolitionist, and his writings on the life of a slave provide an insight into the darker side of what many Americans consider to be a happy period in American

The rapid advancement has enabled the level of achievements within the last decades to be beyond belief. However, people seldom reflect about how these progressions were achieved: through learning from the past. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass enabled people to understand why abolitionist movement in America during the 1800s was necessary and broadened their views by explaining how slavery, an idea so disturbing and unacceptable was the norm in the relative past. Douglass shares his story in hopes of changing the perception of some while firmly expressing his belief that people should stand against slavery.

As a Black New York abolitionist, the events in the decade preceding the Civil War has caused me great anguish in my pursuit for the abolition of slavery. Being that I desire to create a society free of bondage and subjugation for my brethren, I am harrowed at the development of such affairs, however I still continue my campaign to prevent a crisis from occurring in the United States of America.

During the 1840s, America saw increasingly attractive settlements forming between the North and the South. The government tried to keep the industrial north and the agricultural south happy, but eventually the issue of slavery became too big to handle, no matter how many treaties or compromises were formed. Slavery was a huge issue that unraveled throughout many years of American history and was one of the biggest contributors leading up to the Civil War (notes, Fall 2015). Many books have been written over the years about slavery and the brutality of the life that many people endured. In “A Slave No More”, David Blight tells the story about two men, John M. Washington (1838-1918) and Wallace Turnage (1846-1916), struggling during American slavery. Their escape to freedom happened during America’s bloodiest war among many political conflicts, which had been splitting the country apart for many decades. As Blight (2007) describes, “Throughout the Civil War, in thousands of different circumstances, under changing policies and redefinitions of their status, and in the face of social chaos…four million slaves helped to decide what time it would be in American History” (p. 5). Whether it was freedom from a master or overseer, freedom from living as both property and the object of another person’s will, or even freedom to make their own decisions and control their own life, slaves wanted a sense of independence. According to Blight (2007), “The war and the presence of Union armies

Zinn states that the country’s motive for slavery was purely economically, due to slavery being a multibillion dollar industry, racism only appeared later when the white men understood that racism could be used to keep the slaves below them in society. Zinn discusses just how large slavery was and how it was nearly impossible for slaves to make any changes. Many slaves tried rebelling but this only lead to harsher treatment by slave owners who lived in fear of slave rebellions. Lead by people like John Brown, they were seen as heroes who helped fight for freedom but usually just ended in them being hung or killed in some way. As the article goes on Zinn discusses how Africans had a gain in rights after Lincoln was named president. Then, as time went on those rights quickly regressed due to change in presidents, political system and an increase in capitalism. As the Johnson administration came to form, many of Lincoln's policies protecting Africans slowly crumpled. Overall, Zinn makes an effort to

Slavery is a contradictory subject in American history because “one hears…of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; [while] on the other hand on hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridles power and wide oppression of men” (Dubois 2). Dubois’s The Negro in the United States is an autoethnographic text which is a representation “that the so-defined others

Ford, Lacy K. Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

“Sincerely and earnestly hoping that this little book may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system, and hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of my brethren in bonds … relying upon the power of truth, love, and justice, for success in my … efforts and solemnly pledging myself anew to the sacred cause, I subscribe myself” (Douglass 76). With these words, Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895), an emancipated slave with no formal education, ends one of the greatest pieces of propaganda of the 19th century America: that slavery is good for the slave. He writes his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, as an abolitionist tool to shape his